EPILO'BIUM DODONjE'I. 



DODON^EUS'S EPILOBIUM. 

 doss. Order. 



OCTANDKIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Natural Order. 



ONAGRARIjE. 



No. 55. 



Epilobium is compounded of three Greek words, 

 EPI LOBOU ION, a violet upon a pod ; or, more 

 literally, upon a pod - a violet : not that a violet 

 resembles the blossom, but is intended to indicate 

 a beautiful flower. Dodonaei from Dodonaeus, an 

 eminent physician and botanist of Friesland, who 

 lived in the sixteenth century, and published several 

 botanical works in German, illustrated by wood cuts, 

 similar to those of Gerarde and Parkinson. 



This species has been noticed, by some writers, 

 as synonymous with Epilobium angustissimum. 

 Ours is a plant with procumbent stems, and other- 

 wise differing from angustissimum. 



It is the prettiest plant that we know of the tribe, 

 and is never troublesome by spreading at the root, 

 which some of the Epilobiums are found to be. 



After it has done blossoming, the whole of the 

 stems may be cut off, or they will continue to grow, 

 and thus, sometimes, lessen the vigour of the roots. 

 It is easily increased by separating the young 

 shoots in the spring, which will succeed, notwith- 

 standing they may be entirely devoid of any fibrous 

 appendage. 



